Lot 1078: Watercolour/Drawing: Edward Swinburne (b.1765)

Watercolour/Drawing: Edward Swinburne (b.1765) "Sunderland Harbour" Signed, also inscribed with the artist's name and the title of the work on the mount below with further inscriptions verso, pencil and watercolour heightened with white, shaped top corners, 24.5cm by 38.5cm (9 3/4in by 15 1/4in), unframed The artist was the brother of Sir John Swinburne, 7th Bart of Capheaton, Nr Newcastle Upon Tyne where he lived from 1829. He had visited Italy and, with his brother, was a patron of JMW Turner. Views by him were engraved in Surtees "History of Durham, IV 1840"